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Scientists based in Nigeria and Kenya have begun a major push against parasitic weeds that have spread across much of sub-Saharan Africa, causing up to $1.2 billion in damage every year to the maize and cowpea crops of tens of millions of small farmers.
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Hundreds of experts from around the world will gather in Dakar, Senegal Sept. 27-Oct. 1, 2010, for the Fifth World Cowpea Research Conference to discuss threats to the survival and farm production of black eyed peas -- one of Africa's oldest and most resilient and nutritious crops.
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 | Conservation tillage encompasses a range of techniques for establishing crops in the previous crop's residues. Success of the practice in organic systems is highly influenced by crop rotation for weed and disease control and nitrogen availability. The researchers stated that "cowpea shows promise as a summer cover crop used as a residue-mulch for fall planted crops such as overwintered onion. Cowpea produced comparable onion yields to bare ground in both years of the experiment." ...> Full Article |
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Scientists at the University of Virginia have identified a gene in cowpea (black-eyed pea) that confers resistance to attack from witchweed, a parasitic plant. This discovery will help researchers better understand how some plants can resist Striga, while others, such as corn and sorghum, are susceptible.
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